Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh (died 2500 BC) was King of Uruk from 2800 BC to 2500 BC, succeeding Dumuzid the Fisherman and preceding Ur-Nungal. After his death, he was deified and made into an epic hero.

Biography
Gilgamesh was said to have been born to a mother who had been imprisoned by her own father due to a prophecy which stated that the father's grandson would one day overthrow him. The grandfather had the guards throw Gilgamesh out of the prison cell, but he was rescued by an eagle and raised by a gardener. He became King of Uruk during the Early Dynastic Period of Mesopotamia, and he overthrew King Aga of Kish to become the overlord of Sumer. Gilgamesh built the walls of Uruk as well as a temple to Enlil, and, after he died in 2500 BC, he was buried in the riverbed. After his death, he was deified and turned into an epic hero, and stories about him included his status as being a superhuman demigod and friend of the wildman Enkidu, the victor over the ogre Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven after Ishtar sent them to kill her unrequited love, his alliance with the goddess Inanna, and his quest for immortality.